Promotion

Clive Barker's Dread footage online

There's a promotional reel online for the film adaptation of Clive Barker's Dread and it contains a fair amount of footage, a surprising amount in fact, and what looks like the first attempt at a trailer.

There's also some of Barker himself talking about the story as well as the director, and what looks like a first stab (excuse the pun) at the trailer.

I don't know that much about the film, apart from the fact that it's written by Clive Barker and that it tells the story of of a student of philosophy who is obsessed by a nightmare he has of a axe wielding murderer and his nightmares drive him to investigate how people react to their own nightmares. So he gets some slightly unhinged volunteers, locks them up, subjects them to their terrors, and sees how they behave. However he's getting caught up in his own nightmare, just as the others are.

Anthony Diblasi directs, and he's also a producer on a number of other Clive Barker films. He describes the story as the only Barker story that's entirely set in the real world and is a psychological thriller.

You can see the trailer right here, and although it suggests shades of other horrors, the very fact that it's a Clive Barker story has to have you interested.